Research in San Francisco
Science Explorer records 365 research institutions in San Francisco, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of California, San Francisco, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
- Research institutions
- 365 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 216k ▲ 10% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 21.1% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in San Francisco?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of California, San FranciscoUniversity | 112,124 | #85 | |
| 2 | San Francisco State UniversityUniversity | 11,268 | #4,577 | |
| 3 | University of San FranciscoUniversity | 11,238 | #2,325 | |
| 4 | San Francisco VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 5,807 | #3,458 | |
| 5 | University of California San Francisco Medical CenterHospital / health system | 5,651 | #6,081 | |
| 6 | San Francisco General HospitalHospital / health system | 5,153 | #6,570 | |
| 7 | Institute on AgingNonprofit | 3,176 | #2,905 | |
| 8 | California Pacific Medical CenterHospital / health system | 3,080 | #8,845 | |
| 9 | Golden Gate UniversityUniversity | 2,892 | #20,724 | |
| 10 | Bechtel (United States)Company | 2,644 | #25,503 | |
| 11 | University of California Hastings College of the LawUniversity | 2,270 | #27,550 | |
| 12 | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer CenterResearch facility | 2,238 | #2,829 | |
| 13 | Cal HumanitiesNonprofit | 1,794 | #13,101 | |
| 14 | Roche (United States)Company | 1,682 | #15,928 | |
| 15 | Gladstone InstitutesNonprofit | 1,614 | #2,419 | |
| 16 | California Academy of SciencesArchive | 1,550 | #13,608 | |
| 17 | Public Policy Institute of CaliforniaNonprofit | 1,476 | #18,182 | |
| 18 | Letterman Army Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,323 | #16,692 all time | |
| 19 | Pacific EnvironmentInstitution | 1,254 | #14,798 | |
| 20 | Bay InstituteNonprofit | 1,181 | #6,271 | |
| 21 | San Francisco Department of Public HealthHospital / health system | 1,128 | #8,054 | |
| 22 | California Institute for Regenerative MedicineGovernment institution | 1,103 | #2,062 | |
| 23 | San Francisco FoundationNonprofit | 1,074 | #13,183 | |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoInstitution | 1,003 | #15,571 | |
| 25 | QB3Nonprofit | 963 | #2,304 | |
| 26 | Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and ClinicsHospital / health system | 918 | #5,863 all time | |
| 27 | WestedNonprofit | 905 | #15,684 | |
| 28 | Saybrook UniversityUniversity | 878 | #25,466 | |
| 29 | California Institute of Integral StudiesUniversity | 816 | #15,341 | |
| 30 | Wells Fargo (United States)Company | 775 | #14,409 | |
| 31 | San Francisco AIDS FoundationNonprofit | 769 | #7,443 all time | |
| 32 | City College of San FranciscoUniversity | 748 | #19,711 | |
| 33 | Tumori FoundationNonprofit | 736 | #13,025 all time | |
| 34 | Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical CenterHospital / health system | 719 | #16,688 | |
| 35 | Mechanics' InstituteInstitution | 708 | #12,680 all time | |
| 36 | Autodesk (United States)Company | 693 | #11,390 | |
| 37 | Global Brain Health InstituteNonprofit | 681 | #7,712 | |
| 38 | San Francisco VA Health Care SystemHospital / health system | 616 | #6,346 | |
| 39 | Jewish HomeInstitution | 585 | #13,631 all time | |
| 40 | Evotec (United States)Company | 566 | #14,388 | |
| 41 | Dignity HealthHospital / health system | 558 | #18,709 | |
| 42 | Salesforce (United States)Company | 555 | #11,220 | |
| 43 | St. Mary's Medical CenterHospital / health system | 548 | #14,913 all time | |
| 44 | McKesson (United States)Company | 544 | #25,212 | |
| 45 | Eos Neuroscience (United States)Company | 521 | #24,593 | |
| 46 | Pacific Research InstituteInstitution | 402 | #18,579 | |
| 47 | California Public Utilities CommissionGovernment institution | 399 | #35,655 all time | |
| 48 | Parker Institute for Cancer ImmunotherapyResearch facility | 385 | #945 | |
| 49 | ExploratoriumArchive | 381 | #18,523 all time | |
| 50 | Benchmark Research (United States)Company | 377 | #19,032 | |
| 51 | St. Joseph's HospitalHospital / health system | 368 | #20,389 all time | |
| 52 | Kaiser Family FoundationNonprofit | 338 | #10,071 all time | |
| 53 | Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern CaliforniaResearch facility | 334 | #21,992 all time | |
| 54 | IDEO (United States)Company | 333 | #23,712 all time | |
| 55 | Center for Policy AnalysisNonprofit | 332 | #14,224 all time | |
| 56 | Glaucoma Research FoundationNonprofit | 324 | #34,046 all time | |
| 57 | Levi Strauss (United States)Company | 319 | #26,777 all time | |
| 58 | Hinge HealthHospital / health system | 315 | #19,223 | |
| 59 | Catholic CharitiesNonprofit | 310 | #39,634 all time | |
| 60 | OpenAI (United States)Company | 303 | #11,742 |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is San Francisco strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in San Francisco is most concentrated in Transplantation, Family Practice and Virology (4.3× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 50.9 works4.3×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 50.6 works4.0×
- VirologySubfield · 61.6 works4.0×
- AgingSubfield · 24.3 works3.8×
- Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 31.0 works3.6×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 450.9 works3.4×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 211.2 works3.3×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in San Francisco?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Quality of Life, Mental Health, Public Health, Aging and Risk Factors.
- Mortality Rates
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Cognitive Training
- Caregiver Burden
- Neuroinflammation
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Neurodegeneration
- Genetic Mutations
- Health Disparities
- Global Burden
- Mortality
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Diagnosis
- Depression
- Biomarkers
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Immunotherapy
- Oxidative Stress
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Cancer
- Aging
- Clinical Trials
- Chemotherapy
- Neurological Disorders
- Anxiety
- Neuroimaging
- Radiotherapy
- Primary Care
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Mortality Risk
- Cognitive Decline
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Dementia
- Vascular Risk Factors
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology2,131▲ 2.0×139 topics
- Inflammation968▲ 1.75×83 topics
- Quality of Life803▲ 2.1×60 topics
- Mental Health760▲ 1.95×47 topics
- Public Health743▲ 1.92×71 topics
- Oxidative Stress670▲ 1.54×62 topics
- Risk Factors653▲ 2.2×37 topics
- Immunotherapy642▲ 3.4×19 topics
- Treatment638▲ 1.98×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease574▲ 1.94×39 topics
- Cancer567▲ 1.59×58 topics
- Biomarkers538▲ 3.0×18 topics
- Aging518▲ 3.6×19 topics
- Depression511▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Clinical Trials453▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Diagnosis434▲ 1.75×41 topics
- Chemotherapy416▲ 2.2×25 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome391▲ 1.81×24 topics
- Neurological Disorders389▲ 2.6×20 topics
- Mortality375▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Anxiety335▲ 2.7×12 topics
- Global Burden335▲ 2.4×12 topics
- Neuroimaging334▲ 4.6×11 topics
- Health Disparities327▲ 4.7×8 topics
- Radiotherapy324▲ 3.2×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations320▲ 2.8×23 topics
- Primary Care316▲ 3.2×15 topics
- Neurodegeneration309▲ 3.9×11 topics
- Alzheimer's Disease288▲ 3.8×9 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy280▲ 6.5×6 topics
- Mortality Risk270▲ 4.3×6 topics
- Neuroinflammation262▲ 3.5×6 topics
- Cognitive Decline229▲ 7.2×2 topics
- Caregiver Burden224▲ 7.7×3 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy219▲ 5.4×3 topics
- Cognitive Training219▲ 9.0×2 topics
- Dementia212▲ 8.6×2 topics
- Mild Cognitive Impairment211▲ 9.5×1 topic
- Vascular Risk Factors211▲ 9.5×1 topic
- Mortality Rates185▲ 7.4×2 topics
What research is done in San Francisco?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 211 works
- 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 145 works
- 3 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 124 works
- 4 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 112 works
- 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 104 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 103 works
- 7 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 103 works
- 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 102 works
- 9 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 90 works
- 10 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 87 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.